Package: debianutils Version: 4.3.4 Severity: important [resubmitting as something seems to have gone wrong with creating the bug] [third time's the charm?]
Dear Maintainer, The ischroot code checks to see if it can access /proc/1/root to determine if it is a running inside a chroot. Within vservers you can now read /proc/1/root so it is no longer a sufficient test for vservers. On newer vserver patches a better check is to look for a VxID line in /proc/self/status. If the line is present you're running a vserver kernel. If the value is 0, then you're on the physical host, anything else means you're in a vserver. Inside a vserver: puck@build-sid-amd64:/$ grep VxID /proc/self/status VxID: 12 puck@build-sid-amd64:/$ On the physical host: build-servers:~$ grep VxID /proc/self/status VxID: 0 puck@build-servers:~$ A patch that adds this behaviour is attached, please feel free to rewrite! Also, method that I've supplied works for non-root users as well, but I haven't added that support. I've set this bug report to important as it is stopping initscripts from being installable on a Wheezy vserver. This is the case on Linux kernel 3.4 + 2.3.3.9 vserver patch. The 3.2 kernel set of patches is not affected by this change of behaviour. Cheers! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-28-vserver (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=POSIX (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debianutils depends on: ii libc6 2.13-37 ii sensible-utils 0.0.7 debianutils recommends no packages. debianutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
--- ischroot.c.orig 2013-03-12 22:00:36.235819225 +1300
+++ ischroot.c 2013-03-12 22:33:08.744874725 +1300
@@ -76,9 +76,31 @@
return 2;
/* Root can not read /proc/1/root, assume vserver or similar */
return 0;
- } else if ((st1.st_dev == st2.st_dev) && (st1.st_ino == st2.st_ino))
+ } else if ((st1.st_dev == st2.st_dev) && (st1.st_ino == st2.st_ino)) {
+ /* but look more closely for vserver, see if VxID != 0 */
+
+ FILE *status=fopen("/proc/self/status", "r");
+ size_t linesiz=0;
+ char* linebuf=0;
+ char* vxidline=0;
+ ssize_t linelen=0;
+ unsigned int vxid = 0;
+ while (linelen=getline(&linebuf, &linesiz, status)>0) {
+ vxidline = strstr(linebuf, "VxID:");
+ if (vxidline != NULL) {
+ sscanf(linebuf, "%*s %u", &vxid);
+
+ if (vxid == 0)
+ /* Host system */
+ return 1;
+ else
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+ free (linebuf);
+ fclose(status);
return 1;
- else
+ } else
return 0;
}
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
